RE: [SLUG] WAS about Linux virii

From: R P Herrold (herrold@owlriver.com)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 13:31:11 EST

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On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Grantham, Patrick wrote:

> Set you shell to NULL for root then root cannot login. I have used this to
> create accounts that do not have rights to login directly. Be careful to
> have some other super user equivalent login.

oh my gawd ... please NO -- some crufty old programs fail
spectactularly if this is done on some commercial Unices.
HP-UX is quite touchy about this

-- Russ

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